Re: Cricket references in non-cricket (OK, mostly US) culture

by ever hopeful on Tue Oct 06, 2009 3:06 am

Once saw a Farside cartoon with someone getting in a mess putting glue onto a gate and saying something about a sticky wicket. Obviously Gary Larson, who draws the Farside cartoons, had no idea what a sticky wicket really is or where the reference comes from.

by mynah on Tue Oct 06, 2009 3:17 am

Re: Cricket references in non-cricket (OK, mostly US) culture

Here

by Bradman on Tue Oct 06, 2009 3:26 am

ever hopeful wrote:Once saw a Farside cartoon with someone getting in a mess putting glue onto a gate and saying something about a sticky wicket. Obviously Gary Larson, who draws the Farside cartoons, had no idea what a sticky wicket really is or where the reference comes from.

I think Gary Larson is Canadian so that might explain it. Or am I thinking of Garry Tudeau?

by Gary 111 on Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:35 pm

How about this....

http://www.silive.com/entertainment/recreation/index.ssf/2008/06/get_out_swingers_club.html

Particularly like the last line - "An over is completed after the bowler throws six fair balls". Clearly written by a Murali fan.

by PeterCS on Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:46 am

Bradman wrote:
ever hopeful wrote:Once saw a Farside cartoon with someone getting in a mess putting glue onto a gate and saying something about a sticky wicket. Obviously Gary Larson, who draws the Farside cartoons, had no idea what a sticky wicket really is or where the reference comes from.

I think Gary Larson is Canadian so that might explain it. Or am I thinking of Garry Tudeau?

Pierre Tudeau?

by JKLever on Sat Oct 31, 2009 6:21 am

Gary 111 wrote:How about this....

http://www.silive.com/entertainment/recreation/index.ssf/2008/06/get_out_swingers_club.html

Particularly like the last line - "An over is completed after the bowler throws six fair balls". Clearly written by a Murali fan.

Blimey a Gazza post out of the blue. How do, chap?

by Gary 111 on Sat Oct 31, 2009 8:41 am

Not bad, JKL.

Back from the States now so this seemed an apt thread to post on.

Spent most of the year telling Americans how slow and boring baseball is compared to cricket.... but they never really seemed to understand.

by DJ_Smerk on Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:06 pm

Predictable reaction from a predictable nation...

by Allan D on Sun Nov 01, 2009 12:31 am

3 novels, not exclusively about cricket, in which a description of a cricket match occurs or plays an important part in the story:

Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers
A.G.McDonnell's England, Their England
L.P.Hartley's The Go-Between

Novels exclusively devoted to cricket:

Hugh de Selincourt's The Cricket Match
E.R. Dexter & C. Makins' Test Kill

Films including cricket matches:

The Browning Version(1951)
The Final Test(1953)

both directed by Anthony Asquith with a screenplay by Terence Rattigan (although The Browning Version was remade in 1994).

by Bradman on Sun Nov 01, 2009 1:01 am

Tom Brown's Schooldays. Raffles. A couple of lenghty poems.

by lardbucket on Sun Nov 01, 2009 2:13 am

Cricket featured modestly in the Bunter series as well ... da Costa (presumably a Sri Lankan??) and Wharton made all the runs while Billy simply consumed all pies provided.

Garry Trudeau does Doonesbury ... is he a Canadian? He's too funny to be an American.

Gary Larsen and Michael Leunig remain my favourite cartoonists.

by PeterCS on Sun Nov 01, 2009 4:47 am

Keep Cozzy out of this.

Don't forget Private Chung, with clicky ba'.